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The Senses: Seeing StudyJam

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

The Senses: Seeing StudyJam

URL:

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/human-body/seeing.htm

Content Source:

Other
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Type:

Learning Activity

Overview:

This classroom resource provides a video that will describe the parts of the eye and how they work to allow sight. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding. This resource will provide background information to students before they create their own models.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 4

8 ) Construct a model to explain that an object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes.

NAEP Framework

NAEP Statement::
P4.2: Objects vary in the extent to which they absorb and reflect light and conduct heat (thermal energy) and electricity.

NAEP Statement::
P4.9: Light travels in straight lines. When light strikes substances and objects through which it cannot pass, shadows result. When light travels obliquely from one substance to another (air and water), it changes direction.

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect

Disciplinary Core Idea: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Construct a model and use it to explain that in order to see objects that do not produce their own light, light must reflect off the object and into the eye.

Teacher Vocabulary:

reflection
opaque
translucent
transparent
refraction

Knowledge:

Students know:

Light enters the eye, allowing objects to be seen.
Light reflects off of objects, and then can travel and enter the eye.
Objects can be seen only if light follows a path between a light source, the object, and the eye.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Construct a model to make sense of a phenomenon.
Identify relevant components of the model including: light (including the light source), objects, the path that light follows, and the eye.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

An object can be seen when light reflected from its surface enters the eyes.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Energy and Waves

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.4.8- Identify a model that shows the path of light reflected from the surface of an object to be seen by the eye.

Tags:

cornea, eye, iris, lens, light, optic nerve, pupil, retina, seeing, senses

License Type:

Custom Permission Type
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Accessibility

Comments

The test may be completed as a whole group or independently on student devices.

There is a printable available that includes a short synopsis of the video and definitions of the vocabulary words. This could be used as a notetaking sheet for students as they watch the video.

This resource provided by:

Author:

Hannah Bradley

ALEX Classroom Resource

The Senses: Seeing StudyJam